The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained 10 Bangladeshi nationals, including four children and two women, as they were returning from India through the Rajki border in Moulvibazar on Friday morning.

The group was apprehended around 8:30am near the Rajki border under Fultola union in Juri upazila, BGB said. All of them are residents of Kurigram district.

Naib Subedar Abul Hashem of the BGB’s Rajki camp said a patrol team detained the individuals from an area between the main pillars along the Chungabari border after finding their movement suspicious.

He said that preliminary investigation suggests the detainees had crossed into India several years ago in search of livelihood and had been working as day labourers in the state of Haryana.

BSF pushes 19 people into Bangladesh: BGB

Indian police detained them on May 9 and handed them over to the Border Security Force (BSF), who later pushed them back through the border without their mobile phones or identification documents.

They were provided with food after being brought to the BGB camp and later handed over to Juri Police Station following necessary procedures.

Juri Police Station’s Officer-in-Charge, Murshedul Alam Bhuiyan said, “Steps are being taken to hand them over to their family members,”

Since May 7, the BSF has illegally pushed almost a thousand individuals into Bangladesh - not all of them Bangladeshis -through various points of the border, and in disregard of due process or protocols.